Military Involvement
| Servicemen * De- surnames |
Gene Leasure Deere was born Mar. 22, 1923 to Robert L. and Edith Johnson Deere. He died Dec. 1, 1996 and is buried in Davenport Memorial Park, Davenport, IA.
Gene served in World War II with the U.S. Army Air Corps in Normandy, northern France and the Rhineland. He received the American Theater Ribbon, European-African-Middle Eastern Theater Ribbon with four bronze battle stars and the World War II Victory Medal.
Source: ancestry.com
Stanley Wilfred Delker was born Mar. 3, 1919 to Benjamin and Lourena Evans Delker. He died Apr. 19, 1998 and is buried in Primrose Cemetery, Lee County, IA.
Pvt. Delker served with the U.S. Army in World War II.
Source: ancestry.com
Edwin DeWitt was born July 20, 1915 to Frank Festus and Sarah Frances Ankrom DeWitt. He died Mar. 17, 2009 and is buried in Spencer Cemetery, Stockport, IA.
Edwin served in World War II with the U.S. Army.
Source: ancestry.com
Wallace M. DeWitt was born Mar. 26, 1919 to Frank and Sarah F. Ankrom DeWitt. He died May 1, 1943 and is memorialized at the Tablets of the Missing, North Africa American Cemetery, Tunis, Tunisia.
Sgt. DeWitt served in World War II with the U.S. Army Air Corps 345th Bomber Squadron, 98th Bomber Group, Heavy and was MIA/FOD/KIA in the Mediterranean Sea and was awarded the Air Medal and Purple Heart.
Source: ancestry.com
ServiceMen Research done by WWII Researcher, Pat Holt Juon, Apr 2019; updated Mar 2020 & Jul 2021